You may or may not love Jimmy Fallon. Myself, I used to be somewhat lukewarm — but objectively, I think he’s found his niche in late night and, like most people, was genuinely happy to see the guy advance to The Tonight Show.

Back in the ’90s, I lived in an apartment off Sunset Boulevard, where I had quite the assortment of neighbors, including Ellen “Grandma Walton” Corby, Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead, and a struggling actor named Oscar Nuñez. Oscar was a performer at the Groundlings sketch comedy school, and I’d go see him perform.

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I remember one show in particular in which each performer got five minutes to do a character of their own creation, and after watching one excruciatingly annoying character named “The Masshole,” I wanted to walk out. But I stayed to support Oscar.

The Masshole bit was just five minutes of a guy doing a bad Boston accent. No jokes. Just an accent, like “My brudda pahked his cahr in the yahd not fahr from Havaaad Yahd. It’s a wicked Camaraaa…” I remember thinking at the end of the gig, “Don’t quit your day job, kid.”

That kid was Jimmy Fallon.

OMG. I totally thought he was going to say Colin Quinn! Go on.

And now, many years later, the unthinkable has happened: Jimmy Fallon is everywhere. Forget his day job, the kid now has the most desirable job in comedy.

I know that the world is a cruel, unjust, chaotic place. I just don’t understand how mealy-mouthed Jimmy Fallon became host of The Tonight Show.

He’s not funny. He’s not a good actor. He’s not a good interviewer. And so far, he has yet to have an original idea.

Whereas penning hate-pieces on Jimmy Fallon is TOTALLY original.

Fallon is the kind of guy that pulls out an acoustic guitar at a party and does a Neil Young impersonation or takes someone’s sunglasses and pretends to be Stevie Wonder.

Or worse, he puts on Tom Jones and does the Carlton Dance. He’s that guy.

Fallon has so few ideas on what to ask his guests (even in the most puffy puff-piece interviews) that he resorts to playing parlor games like Beer Pong, Flip Cup and Air Hockey with them.

Watching him makes me feel like I died and went to Manayunk on a Friday night. It’s horrible.

Comparing anything to Manayunk is local-Philly sensationalism in its poorest form.

The problem is, Fallon can’t fail. He has set the bar so low for comedy that he is guaranteed this job for life.

Impersonations are the lowest form of comedy, just below puns. And impersonations of Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Seinfeld and Adam Sandler are the lowest form of impersonations. Fallon does all three regularly.

Well… He did them in his Saturday Night Live audition and I guess a few times as a cast member. Also, aren’t at least like 75% of Saturday Night Live sketches impersonation-based? Maybe the author’s problem is that he really just doesn’t like “comedy.”

He was the one guy on Saturday Night Live that could not stay in character. He would crack up laughing, flub his lines and stare directly into the camera.

These days, Fallon’s whole shtick is to take something from childhood, rope in a superstar celebrity, and beat it to death.

And let’s not even talk about his apparent obsession with Justin Timberlake, who seems to show up constantly to sing medleys of 20-year-old pop songs. ENOUGH ALREADY. I’m almost ready to tune into Arsenio. Almost.

I’m sure Mr. Arsenio would be happy to have you.

I realize the best TV writers are now at the Daily Show, Colbert, Key & Peele, Real Time, Tosh.0, Portlandia, Always Sunny, and Parks & Recreation. But C’MON. Hire somebody.

I know not everyone falls for Fallon’s smirky, impish personality. It’s been reported that other SNL cast members weren’t keen on his antics. Tracy Morgan was bothered by the “laughing and all that dumb [bleep] he used to do — he wouldn’t mess with me because I didn’t [bleep]ing play that shit. That’s taking all the attention off of everybody else and putting it on you, like, ‘Oh, look at me, I’m the cute one.’ I told him not to do that shit in my sketches, so he never did.”

I love Tracy Morgan as much as anyone — but the testimony of one of the lesser mentally stable Saturday Night Live cast members is not winning your argument. I’ll need to hear what Victoria Jackson’s thoughts are on the matter, first.

It’s almost sacrilege, at least in Philly, to talk smack about Fallon, thanks to Questlove and the Roots. I have nothing but love and respect for them. And I realize that they have to eat. But when I hear them being described as “Jimmy Fallon’s House Band,” it’s like God is strangling a kitten. Why God, why?

Wow, dude. It’s one thing to hate a guy like, say, Jay Leno, but even then I can’t imagine putting the kind of vitriol it takes to write like a 1000+ word opinion piece crapping my pants about it. Plus, because relevant: If Jimmy Fallon, Carly Rae Jepsen and Jimmy Fallon’s House Band — I’m sorry, I mean The Roots!!! — performing “Call Me Maybe” didn’t melt your icy facade just a little bit, then you might actually be the one with the closet kitten-strangling problem.

I’ve never cared for Fallon but I agree that he seems to have found his niche. I don’t find him to be anything special as a performer but he does seem like a genuinely nice guy that is also kind of funny, that is serving him well as a late night host.

And whatever deed hi did to get Timberlake on his team has paid big dividends. Say what you want to about JT (ugh I did it) but that guy is funny as hell and has star power to spare.

He’s hosting the Tonight Show, not 60 Minutes, the interviews are all promotion, entertainment, and fluff. It’s not like he’s uncovering underground prostitution rings, he’s trying to make people laugh.

I started out with a default dislike of Fallon. No idea why. We all have built in biases that we have to overcome. I did overcome it once he went to Late Night and didn’t suck. He’s infinitely preferable to Leno’s homogenized lowest common denominator humor.

I was never a fan of the Boston sketches from SNL, but they were never stick-an-icepick-in-your-eardrum annoying.

Yeah I’m not crazy about the guy either, but he DOES have good ideas for a late night show and a lot of these complaints only someone who has a bizarre and borderline creepy obsessive hatred for him would complain about.

Everyone keeps talking about Fallon’s interview skills AS IF JAY LENO WAS A MASTER INTERVIEWER.

All he ever did was set up stories or stand up routines that were agreed upon before hand, or ask some inane “what was it like on this movie?” bullshits. Come on. The only people who are really good at interviews are Letterman, Ferguson, and Colbert.

“I remember thinking at the end of the gig, “Don’t quit your day job, kid.”

That kid was Jimmy Fallon.”

I did keep reading after this point, but this line early on told me everything I needed to know. You judged him after one performance, and now admitting there’s a reason he’s successful would mean… GASP! admitting you were wrong! To be honest I don’t really like Fallon that much either, but there’s a difference between “I don’t personally like him” and “hes the worst thing ever no one should ever like him.” I can still admit the music bits are great, and as has been said, Fallon or no Fallon, the Carlton dance is GOLD. F*ck this Philly mag dude.

Say what you will about Fallon before he became host of the Late Show but once that happened he got the Roots as his house band and because of that, they can all afford to buy houses. The man was then and will forever be a fucking saint because of that shit. Those guys were way too talented to be toiling in mainstream obscurity. If you don’t think that Organix and Do You Want More are 2 of the best hip hop albums ever, you are wrong.

I found myself agreeing with more than half of this guy’s arguments (with the significant caveat that I’ve watched little enough of Fallon that I don’t really know have much ability to criticize those arguments), but then he went and said that Real Time has good writing. What the fuck? (No political replies, please — I only mean the scripted stuff is rarely funny.)

Anyway, it’s okay to not like the show, but this kind of “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH EVERYBODY I FEEL LIKE I’M TAKING CRAZY PILLS THIS GUY SUCKS BLAHOAIDNFAINGADFG” piece is just childish.

It may be a over-dramatic article, but it is spot on about Fallon. He’s an overrated, unfunny ass kisser that always does stupid musical impersonations or “hey, remember the 90s!” bits. Fuck him and fuck NBC.